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White House: Drone Strikes ‘Legal and Ethical’
Obama Aide: Constitution Makes Strikes Lawful Anywhere on Planet Fresh off of an interview yesterday in which he shrugged off civilian killings in the US drone war, top White House adviser John O. Brennan was ordered to provide more “openness” on the program at a speech today in Washington. This time, Brennan centered on the legality of.. More -
A Game of Drones
America’s recent foreign policy has been enabled by a central idea: the United States does things differently. It wages wars differently. It suspends habeas corpus sparingly and with great restraint. It encroaches on liberties more gingerly. And it puts military men and women at risk with a respectful selectivity. To advance this mythology, the.. More -
Amnesty International finds anti-Muslim bias in Europe
Human rights group Amnesty International says Muslims who openly show their faith suffer widespread discrimination in Europe. In a new report, the group urges Europe's governments to do more to challenge negative stereotypes and prejudices against Muslims. In particular, it says Muslims face exclusion from jobs and education for wearing traditional.. More -
Syria’s forgotten refugees
It was 21 February 2006. The date is etched in Samia’s mind. She was in her kitchen making tea for her brother’s family, who was visiting her at her home in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, when gunfire broke out in the sitting room. “It was as if there was a war in my home,” she recounted. She could not move; could not breathe;.. More -
'Hunger strike a signal to world's oppressed'
Khader Adnan recounts his 66-day fast in Israeli jail that has made him a symbol of Palestinian resistance. When Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan called his mother at 11:30pm on Tuesday night, she burst into tears. "He told me, 'Mother I am on my way home,'" she said. “For the first time in months my heart was at ease again.".. More -
Syria's carnival that ended in bloodshed
The events in the New Clock Square on April 18, 2011, evoke both bitter and sweet memories for the thousands who participated in the largest demonstration in the city center since the country-wide uprising against President Bashar al-Assad had started. "It was a day where we thought the Syrian regime was two days from collapsing. A day when all.. More -
Invasion by South Sudan army in Sudanese territory of Heglig
In yet another unwarranted act of aggression, South Sudan and its proxy forces again heinously attacked and occupied Heglig on April 10th, an area that is indisputably a Sudanese territory. The assault comes in the midst of strenuous peace-building efforts exerted by the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) whose chairman recently.. More -
Deir Yassin: No passing over history
On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through cooperative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba - the Arabic word for the depopulation of Palestine - talks about the war as a defensive one where there was no intention.. More -
Israel’s second-class citizens
Israeli authorities have basically ignored a court order in June 2011 to provide Bedouin communities with water, just as Jewish Israelis are. Between 80,000 and 90,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel live in unrecognized villages in the southern Negev, according to a report by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. As a result of their unrecognized.. More -
Syria's greater revolution
Veteran activists of the current Syrian uprising share their tales of struggle and revolution. The Syrian revolution began gradually; a protest in Damascus, the detention of teenage anti-regime graffitists in Dar’aa, and the subsequent mass rally for their release that led to a strong military reaction happened over just a few days and slowly.. More -
Palestinians forge new strategies of resistance
A one-state solution in Palestine/Israel is a subject being increasingly discussed and debated. One way in which the conversation has emerged is through an analysis of the current situation as a de facto one state, a regime which privileges Jews above Palestinians (the latter being granted or denied different rights according to geography and legal.. More -
Europe no sanctuary for Afghan asylum seekers
As Afghanistan's army was beginning to assume a more active combat role in 2007 - and as suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs - Omar thought a move to Europe would make his life safer. Instead, as with the 300 Afghans who marched in Stockholm that year to demand their rights to asylum, the 19-year-old would realize the journey to.. More -
US troop massacre "occurred in two stages"
The U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians is believed to have carried out the rampage in two stages, returning to base after the first shootings and then going out to kill again, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details about the investigation into the March.. More -
Sharp increase in Palestinian deaths in 2011
The past year saw a sharp rise in the number of civilians killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a human rights group said. An annual report from the Jerusalem-based B'Tselem showed that in 2011 Israeli forces killed a total of 105 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom 37 were confirmed as non-combatants. "The picture is harsh, not because.. More -
Syrians routinely tortured in detention
People detained by the Syrian authorities are being systematically and routinely tortured, an Amnesty International report alleges. The rights group says officials are using techniques including suspending and then beating detainees with fists and rifle butts. Many of those from whom Amnesty gathered testimony said children were among the torture.. More
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